• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Horror story

S

sithspit

Weaksauce
Joined
Aug 22, 2001
Messages
116
I have to tell you guys about the terrible experience I had last weekend.

I just bought a new P4 mobo and processor. It came in several days before my heatsink/fan was supposed to arrive, so I figured "what could be hurt by running with the intel fan that came with the processor, if just for a few days?".

So I put the stock intel heatsink on there (those things take a lot of pressure on those cheap plastic arms to get them on). When my real heatsink arrived, I opened up my case to replace the heatsink. I quickly realized that I would have to fiddle with it to get it off because the ABIT board had an OTES (outside thermal exhaust system, or whatever) and that was limiting the amount of room I had to move the intel heatsink clips in order to get them off.

So I fiddled with it until I got one edge detached. Then I hinged the heatsink up on the other edge with the intent of using that extra space to wiggle the clips loose. As I lifted it up I thought to myself, "funny, I could have sworn I had a pentium 4 processor under this thing". After a stream of expletives that no doubt woke the neigbors (who are about a mile away), I calmed down enough to *carefully* get the heatsink detached. At some point, the intel provided thermal interface material acted as a powerful adhesive, so powerful that it pulled the processor right out of the socket. It took me a minute or so of careful prying to get the processor pulled off, and another 10 minutes with a butter knife to straighten the 10-15 pins that were bent.

This taught me a valuable lesson about patience... Not! I just learned that Intel cooling systems piss me off.

Anyone else have any similar horror stories of hardware installation?

Please, no cracked athlon stories ;)
 
I had only heard about it with the thermal tape like you mentioned....I never had an incident in over 2 years with AS2, but about 3 weeks ago I did it with the peanut butter they call AS5....

I lifted directly up so there was absolutely no bent pins....

Be careful...The best thing may be now thinking about it would be to sligthly give it a twist with no lifting up...This helps break it as it was the way I got the chip off....I not sure if it acted like a suction cup or not or adhered to it...
 
Originally posted by sithspit
I have to tell you guys about the terrible experience I had last weekend.

I just bought a new P4 mobo and processor. It came in several days before my heatsink/fan was supposed to arrive, so I figured "what could be hurt by running with the intel fan that came with the processor, if just for a few days?".

So I put the stock intel heatsink on there (those things take a lot of pressure on those cheap plastic arms to get them on). When my real heatsink arrived, I opened up my case to replace the heatsink. I quickly realized that I would have to fiddle with it to get it off because the ABIT board had an OTES (outside thermal exhaust system, or whatever) and that was limiting the amount of room I had to move the intel heatsink clips in order to get them off.

So I fiddled with it until I got one edge detached. Then I hinged the heatsink up on the other edge with the intent of using that extra space to wiggle the clips loose. As I lifted it up I thought to myself, "funny, I could have sworn I had a pentium 4 processor under this thing". After a stream of expletives that no doubt woke the neigbors (who are about a mile away), I calmed down enough to *carefully* get the heatsink detached. At some point, the intel provided thermal interface material acted as a powerful adhesive, so powerful that it pulled the processor right out of the socket. It took me a minute or so of careful prying to get the processor pulled off, and another 10 minutes with a butter knife to straighten the 10-15 pins that were bent.

This taught me a valuable lesson about patience... Not! I just learned that Intel cooling systems piss me off.

Anyone else have any similar horror stories of hardware installation?

Please, no cracked athlon stories ;)
Click to expand...

The EXACT same thing happened to me yesterday. Down to the friggin' letter.

Is your CPU working? Mine doesn't anymore.
 
Originally posted by onetwo
The EXACT same thing happened to me yesterday. Down to the friggin' letter.

Is your CPU working? Mine doesn't anymore.
Click to expand...

not really such a horror story man... it happens all the time... i was expecting your cat to have peed into your newly dremeled 120mm intake window you just dremeled or something... and then the electrocution burned the cat's hair off... or at least something swanky like that.
 
Originally posted by diredesire
not really such a horror story man... it happens all the time... i was expecting your cat to have peed into your newly dremeled 120mm intake window you just dremeled or something... and then the electrocution burned the cat's hair off... or at least something swanky like that.
Click to expand...

LOL!!!:D :D :D
 
never cracked an athlon but i did burn a 2100+ while no hsf was on it. another 2100+ burned while playing half-life... not sure what is in store for my new p4, i hope i dont fuck it up

:eek: :eek:
 
Originally posted by JesusCow
never cracked an athlon but i did burn a 2100+ while no hsf was on it. another 2100+ burned while playing half-life... not sure what is in store for my new p4, i hope i dont fuck it up

:eek: :eek:
Click to expand...


hand over the p4, buddy. don't want you killing that one, too.
 
How the hell does the stock intel HSF become sticky as hell? This is quite scary to hear.
 
I've had the CPU stay on the HSF MANY times when removing it. After a while you get used to it and check the HSF before sitting it down.


First time it happened, I was like WTF??? I saw the CPU stuck to the HSF so I grabbed a little knife to pry it free. Bad idea, the CPU came free but bounced on my desk, hit the wall and then fell to the floor. Had 3 bent pins but after some straightening, it still worked.:D
 
would've been horribly funny if you pulled that heatspreader off the chip.
 
Update: CPU works again :D Straightening out the pins a bit more did the trick.

Originally posted by Geno
would've been horribly funny if you pulled that heatspreader off the chip.
Click to expand...

*Analyzing...*

Nope, not funny at all. Abort, Retry, Fail?
 
My CPU still works, and I figured it had probably happened before. That didn't stop my from getting pissed/scared.

The interesting thing about the thermal material, is when I pulled the CPU off of it, there was a layer of the material still stuck to the heat spreader that I had to scrape off. So there really was some adhesion going on between the material and the heat spreader.
 
Originally posted by diredesire
not really such a horror story man... it happens all the time... i was expecting your cat to have peed into your newly dremeled 120mm intake window you just dremeled or something... and then the electrocution burned the cat's hair off... or at least something swanky like that.
Click to expand...


Actually the cat did puke on a antistatic bag, that just a minute earlier had my Radeon 9800XT on it. So it was almost as bad as that.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top